Class, Ethnicity, and the Democratic State

Nigeria, 1950-1966

Bibliographic Data

ID2107290
AuthorsL Diamond (0000-0001-5471-666X, Vanderbilt University, corresponding author)
Year1983
Volume25
Issue3
Pages457-489
Publication date1983-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueComparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0010417500010549
OpenAlexW2127202095
LanguageEN
Citations received24
References cited43

Amidst the disruption of rapid social and economic change in contemporary developing nations, political order has been a fragile commodity. The simultaneous, urgent demands of integrating nations, constructing states, institutionalizing participation, and satisfying revolutionary expectations have overwhelmed most third world regimes, and liberal democratic ones in particular. The dependence of constitutional democracy on moderation, tolerance, and restraint in political behavior has been especially difficult to reconcile with the desperate, consummatory character of politics in nations where public agendas and personal expectations grossly exceed available resources and rewards

Commodity · Democracy · Developing country · Development economics · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Ethnic group · Market economy · Moderation · Order (exchange · Political economy · Political science · Politics · State (computer science · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Law · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society · Social Psychology

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